{"id":5904,"date":"2019-09-10T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:16:39","slug":"rajiv-kumar-appointed-as-the-new-md-of-microsoft-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/rajiv-kumar-appointed-as-the-new-md-of-microsoft-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv Kumar appointed as the new MD of Microsoft India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft appointed Rajiv Kumar as the new managing director of Microsoft India (R&amp;D) Pvt Ltd (MIRPL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajiv is currently the Corporate Vice-President of\nMicrosoft&#8217;s Experiences and Devices (E+D) Group, will replace Anil Bhansali,\nwho held this role for six years. Anil will continue as the Corporate Vice\nPresident of Cloud &amp; Enterprise and will be relocating to Redmond, USA,\nMicrosoft said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rajiv has a track record of strong people leadership,\ninnovation and sharp business acumen, all along in his 27-year long career at\nMicrosoft. Over the years he has innovated on a variety of products and built\nlarge world class engineering organizations rooted in the foundation of a\nstrong culture of Microsoft,&#8221; the company said in a press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among Kumar&#8217;s recent key contributions to Microsoft are\nKaizala (an enterprise productivity chat app) and bootstrapping the campus\nhiring program in India resulting in Microsoft hiring the best talent from\npremier engineering colleges in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajiv holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Computer Science from IIT\nRoorkee and a master&#8217;s in Computer Science from the University of Texas,\nAustin. He joined Microsoft, Redmond in 1992 as a campus-hire and moved up from\nbeing a developer in the Visual Basic team to Development Manager in BizTalk\nand then the Product Unit Manager for the Content Management Server team, which\nbecame a part of the SharePoint server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the managing director, Rajiv is expected to further build\nupon the capability of the engineering division and reinforce the culture of\ninclusion, innovation and collaboration, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) in MIRPL is one of\nMicrosoft&#8217;s largest R&amp;D centers outside the company&#8217;s Redmond headquarters.\nSet up in 1998, IDC represents Microsoft&#8217;s strategy of globally shared\ndevelopment to build products and services for driving digital innovation that\nhelps transform individuals and organizations across all industry verticals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Microsoft India Development Center <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) in MIRPL is one of\nMicrosoft&#8217;s largest R&amp;D centers outside the company&#8217;s Redmond headquarters.\nSet up in 1998, IDC represents Microsoft&#8217;s strategy of globally shared\ndevelopment to build products and services for driving digital innovation that\nhelps transform individuals and organizations across all industry verticals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft appointed Rajiv Kumar as the new managing director of Microsoft India (R&amp;D) Pvt Ltd (MIRPL). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Rajiv is currently the Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft&#8217;s Experiences and Devices (E+D) Group, will replace Anil Bhansali, who held this role for six years. 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